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The gradience of multilingualism in typical and impaired language development: Positioning bilectalism within comparative bilingualism
- Source :
- Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 7 (2016), Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in psychology, Front.Psychol.
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media S.A., 2016.
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Abstract
- A multitude of factors characterizes bi- and multilingual compared to monolingual language acquisition. Two of the most prominent viewpoints have recently been put in perspective and enriched by a third (Tsimpli, 2014): age of onset of children's exposure to their native languages, the role of the input they receive, and the timing in monolingual first language development of the phenomena examined in bi- and multilingual children's performance. This article picks up a fourth potential factor (Grohmann, 2014b): language proximity, that is, the closeness between the two or more grammars a multilingual child acquires. It is a first attempt to flesh out the proposed gradient scale of multilingualism within the approach dubbed "comparative bilingualism." The empirical part of this project comes from three types of research: (i) the acquisition and subsequent development of pronominal object clitic placement in two closely related varieties of Greek by bilectal, binational, bilingual, and multilingual children (ii) the performance on executive control tasks by monolingual, bilectal, and bi- or multilingual children and (iii) the role of comparative bilingualism in children with a developmental language impairment for both the diagnosis and subsequent treatment as well as the possible avoidance or weakening of how language impairment presents. 7 1 18 LR: 20170220 JID: 101550902 OID: NLM: PMC4748055 OTO: NOTNLM 2015/10/07 [received] 2016/01/08 [accepted] epublish
- Subjects :
- First language
biolinguistics
lcsh:BF1-990
Comparative linguality
dialect
Specific language impairment
050105 experimental psychology
Executive control
comparative linguality
Humanities
Hypothesis and Theory
Clitic
medicine
Psychology
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Multilingualism
Neuroscience of multilingualism
General Psychology
060201 languages & linguistics
Clitics
Biolinguistics
05 social sciences
06 humanities and the arts
Language acquisition
medicine.disease
Dialect
Socio-syntax
Linguistics
Language development
executive control
specific language impairment
lcsh:Psychology
Languages and Literature
0602 languages and literature
socio-syntax
Greek
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16641078
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f1acfe0657cb902fece2bd7f7a369c73
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00037/full